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  1. “Your relationships I told you, I fell in love. And suddenly everything became very different. Because in all honesty, I'd lose a speaking engagement to spend an extra day with my wife. We have the most incredible conversations, right? She enlightens me on so many different ways. And I can promise you, finders, keepers, my book about love. When I sit with Anna, and she teaches me about psychology and the impact of psychology on dating, that wasn't part of my approach at all. Okay, so believe it or not, that day is eventually going to create a book or a training or whatever that's going to change more people's life than anything I could do with money. Remember, by the way, the other side of this is that our biggest resource, you know, when we were at Google, I had this conversation at a point in time with people and I said, why does Google.org contribute money? Why don't we contribute code? We're so much better at producing.”

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  2. “Yeah, you're constantly driven by opportunity cost. If you sell your health and well being for revenue, it's always opportunity cost. Always opportunity courses, always, but they're paying me X. How can I leave that on the table? Okay, you leave that on the table because you don't need X. and two because x the true cost of x is not three hours. Or an hour that you speak, the true cost of X is your well-being, your health. What you're selling is your time, is your joy, is your health? That's what you're selling. You're not selling your intellectual property.”

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  3. “The truth is if I made only twenty and I created a program online, I'd create more revenue from that, and I can put that revenue to unstressable, but it would reach more people at the same time.”

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  4. “Where is your boundary with the arguments with your partner? Where's your boundary with, you know, the challenges that you are willing to accept at work? Where's your boundaries?”

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  5. “Because I was willing to do it for free. Remember that? So, in my conversation with Monier, very, very professional, also a brother to me. I said, Monier. He said, This is the target for this year. I said If I give you the restriction of twenty travel days for the year or twenty trips, basically, would you be able to make that target? He said, Well, in that case, we're going to have to change the dynamics and we're going to have to maybe can we make them 25? No, I said 20 trips a year. Okay, everything else I can do online, everything else I can do. The question is, where's the ceiling? Where's the boundary? And boundaries are not set by the world for you. The world will keep pushing you. You and I talk about our lives, which are not typical lives. But where's the boundary or any of our listeners? Where's your boundary with your friends?”

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  6. “You don't have a ceiling. Structure doesn't have a celic. I told you before we started this conversation. So you and I make a reasonable amount of revenue from speaking engagements, for example. So my policy was very straightforward. When I started my mission 1 billion happy, I openly said, I'm going to go to any place that has more than 50 people and I'm going to speak for free, right? And then I met my wonderful business manager, Monier. And Monier said, that's not right. I said, what do you mean? And he said, if it's a profit-making organization, okay, that's going to hire you, or if it's a paying event, so they're going to use you and then sell tickets, you should charge them. That's the cycle, the complete cycle of life. Otherwise, go and speak for free, right? And that tiny change created revenue, right? The question is, how much revenue is enough?”

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  7. “First of all, I think these are the most honourable, commended people that we can ever talk about, but I will, before I talk about them, I'll ask you to think about how blessed you are. And everyone who's not in that position, anyone who's not in a war zone, anyone who was not born to a very, very difficult circumstances, right? If you're not one of those, then ask yourself, why are you pushing yourself so hard? Now, if you're one of those people, remember, let's limit learn and listen. If your external circumstances don't, you're not able to change them, you can change your ability to deal with the stress.”

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  8. “Because of what you and I struggle with. We assign to ourselves things beforehand. This year I'm saying I may not get there, why? Because when I'm publishing, so we're filming this long before I'm stressable. Right? And at the same time, when the publication date happens, I'm doing nothing during those two weeks or two and a half weeks, nothing but unstressable, very unlike the typical me, right? The typical me thinks of himself as Superman. I'm super old man now. And it's quite interesting because at the end of the day, if I plug so many things in my life, eventually, eventually, believe it or not, you balance it out.”

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  9. “In this my whole life. I've managed very, very complex, very stressful jobs. I run so many things at the same time. And I will tell you openly, I burn out at the end of every book launch. I'm hoping this year I'm not, okay. But that's the truth. The truth is I will eventually, after running really hard for three weeks, I will eventually spend a week and a half unable to do anything. On average, that means I worked a week and a half.”

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  10. “And you waste three hours binge watching something or completely brain dead, right? The truth is that those three hours are wasted three hours. You could actually waste them during the day. They're wasted anyway. And use them differently when you get home. The truth is not we're not too busy. And the problem is this, and I rarely ever use threats as a motivation. But the problem is you're going to put in the time. You're going to put in the time by working on your stress beforehand or lying in bed when you're burnt out. That's the truth. The truth is the body keeps the score, you know, the book, right? Eventually your body is going to go, can't do this anymore, right? Your mind is going to say, I just can't deal with this. And even, you know, I'm theoretically trained.”

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  11. “Yeah, it's a lie. We tell ourselves we're too busy. It's a lie, we're not. Anyone who's too busy has not watched Game of Thrones. Because if you allowed yourself to watch Game of Thrones, that's like 600 hours of your life. Okay, you're not too busy. Anyone who's too busy, this is the interesting bit. The interesting bit is if you are too busy, okay, when you get home, you're unable to do anything.”

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  12. “This already makes this episode quite a very useful one. But theoretically, if Kanye is performing in London tonight you'd find the time.”

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  13. “How do you allow yourself to sit with your body and say, you know, Alice writes about a very normal practice, a body scan. And so few of us that would do it. On a long flight, you should sit with your body and go like, okay, close your eyes, you know, take a deep breath and scan your body from your top of your head all the way to your toes and see where it hurts. And ask yourself how much more effective in your mission would you be if it doesn't hurt?”

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  14. “But you don't tell yourself something's wrong. Okay? And the symptoms of physical stress are very straightforward. Digestive issues, headaches, you're unable to sleep very well. You're unable to rest when you sleep and so on and so it's very simple. Your body theoretically is a machine that should work seamlessly. Unless there is a disease or an illness or whatever, it should work seamlessly. It should simply be like a luxury car you run it and it runs. If it starts to shake and, you know, and it's not performing well, you have to stop and say, what is going on? And every stress will give you a slightly different physical signature. Anxiety is felt in your stomach, right? You know, fear is all over your body. You just want to run. You feel that like you can feel it. The trick is how do you get involved?”

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  15. “I think the easiest one to recognize, believe it or not, is physical stress Physical stress is undeniable. It is when you have a sore throat, you know something's wrong. And you tell yourself something's wrong. Okay? When you have back pain, you know something's wrong.”

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  16. “I mean, spirit here is not a religious thing, right? But your non physical part, call it your consciousness, the part that doesn't relate to your physical form. It sends you signals all the time related to your purpose and what you're supposed to be doing through your intuition. How many of us listen to our intuition when we're running through life? And so these are skills. This is the entire body of the book. The skills of how do you build your resources in terms of spotting by listening to the language that the modality speaks to you, spotting that you're being stressed, and then how do you actually speak back to it? and deal with it with the resources that you need so that you're not that stressed anymore.”

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  17. “Before you go to Australia, right? But yeah, but we ignored it completely. We go like this is normal. It's normal to have aches and pains. I'm traveling for 16 hours. Must have aches and pains. No, you must not. You have aches and pains because you're stressing your body. Okay. But if your body is your priority, you're not going to have the aches and pains. Your spirit would cry.”

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  18. “Emotions overlaid on each other and were told not to acknowledge them at all. So we don't even respond to the language, right? Your body speaks in aches and pains. Why that smile?”

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  19. “Learn that technique, apply that technique, and you will be able to deal with stress a little bit better. And creating a support network, your ability to question your thoughts, you know, I have a technique that I call meet Becky, the idea that you allow your brain to express things and share them rather than block them and so on and so forth, right? And that skill in mental stress is very, very different than emotional stress. Because your brain speaks to you all the time. It rarely ever, if at all ever tells you the truth, that's the language that your brain speaks. It only tells you what it thinks is the truth. Your emotions speak to you all the time and it's always the truth, right? If you're afraid, you're afraid. There is no lying about that. But the problem is that emotions are so subtle, they're so blended, their brush strokes of multiple.”

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  20. “Let the thought reside on paper, it won't reside in your head. And keep the promise. So when you wake up the next morning, actually think about that thought that you made the promise to your brain, that you will. Simple technique, and there are hundreds of those. Like, you know, we have in the mental stress space, for example, we have something we call the gym, G-Y-M, MMM. So eight different practices, right? And the trick here is...”

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  21. “Than your emotional stress. It's different than your physical stress. That's different than your spiritual stress. But if you learn that language, then you can easily deal with that stress when it happens. And it's simple techniques. Like, you know, we probably should cover as many of them as we can, but take the simplest thing, mental stress is the kind of stress that wakes you up at 4 a.m. at night because a thought is running through your head. You can't stop it, right? Simple techniques are write the thought down, okay? Promise yourself that you're going to think about it in the morning before you go to bed. And most of the time, if you simply...”

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  22. “Is he's bringing the average age of the company upwards when the economic crisis of 2008 happened, Google completely panics. And the older group goes like, it's not the first time we've seen economic crisis before. It's cyclical. This is what happens. Maybe we should behave this way, right? It's the same event, but you have more resources because you've seen it over and over, right? So it's your accountability as a person to tell yourself that I need to learn the techniques that I need to understand to be able to manage stress. And the way we wrote them are stressable is we said you get stressed in four modalities. You get stressed mentally, you get stressed emotionally, physically or spiritually. And each of those is a different, I don't know how to say, a different language course. So your mental stress speaks to you and responds to you in a language that is different.”

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  23. “Worry or they have like a bit of a penican what is a different topic we should absolutely cover that right so so panic and what is is breaking down under the anticipation of threats But when it comes to dealing with stress, right, I don't know how to say it, but someone at work when I used to be in the corporate world would walk in and say, oh, the CEO has changed. You know, we've been working on this deal for the last nine months and the CEO has changed. Everything has collapsed. And I'm like, no, it hasn't. No, I've done 200 deals in my life where the CEO has changed and you have to rebuild your network and you have to do this and that and so on. I mean, I think the most valuable example I remember in my life is to the 2008 crisis. So when I joined Google, my boss, which I really adore at the time, he was so direct and very shrewd. And so the introduction when I joined the management meeting the first day is he says, hey everyone, this is Mo. He's bringing the average age of the company up. And I was like, one more sentence, please. Like, please say something else. He didn't. That was it. The introduction.”

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  24. “Intensity of the challenges that you face divided by the skills and resources and the abilities that you have to deal with that stress, right? So the stress equation is the challenge divided by the resources. And that's why someone like you may be able to carry things that would make someone freak out. It's the reason why someone like me would laugh about things that made me freak out in my 20s, right? Because not because the event is different, because you increased your resources.”

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  25. “Of the interesting topics and unstressable is, of course, Alice in her very spiritual, soft practice approach wrote her parts of the book and I was like, Alice, I just still don't get it. And she said, what don't you get? And in my approach, I said, in physics, right, stress is very defined. Stress is very clear in physics, right? An object is stressed when you stress an object, you apply a force to a square area, to the cross-section of the object, right? The object, the stress is not just the result of the force. It's not the external stressor, the external challenge or threat that we face that stresses us. It's your square area that also plays in that equation. So basically, our stress as humans, if you apply the same concept of physics is the...”

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  26. “Two hours commute, and it's very annoying, and you're surrounded by people, it's very intense. And if you have to do it twice a day, it's very different than if you do it for four days. So you add all of those up, the sigma of all of those, when that reaches the breaking point of what you can carry as a human, you break. Right? And normally you'll break because of a tiny thing. Like your best friend goes like, hey, Chubi, and you go like, what? I can't take this anymore and you cannot take go out of bed anymore. You know, previously you would go like, yeah, skinny, whatever. You would just laugh about it. And I think the trick is to save yourself from burnout, it's not that one lost stressor, right? It is all of the other 400 stressors that piled up so that when that last one is applied you break. And it is quite interesting because we normally never break because of stress. It's not the event that breaks us.”

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  27. “Think what most people don't understand is that there are only three ways where stress will break you. One is trauma outside you, but we said you'll recover very quickly. The other is burnout and the third is anticipation of stress. Okay? And these two are completely within your control. So trauma is outside your control, but 93% will recover in three months, 96% will recover in six months, and most of us will actually get post-traumatic growth. So post-trauma, you'll be fine. The majority of house stress kills us is burnout, which is a large, a very large number of small stressors so the burnout equation, as I wrote it in the book, is the number of stressors multiplied by the intensity of each multiplied by the time of application of each multiplied by the frequency of application. So take a commute, for example. If you commute as one stressor multiplied by if it says”

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  28. “like that constant nagging in your head like you know you you need to your hair is starting to show white so constant nagging it's like you're getting old It's small, it doesn't kill you. But if you say it every day, starts to become quite significant, which actually is really, I think, the most interesting part of stress is to understand that stress is very good for you, right? Until it kills you.”

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  29. “No, noise is what happens from within your So it's little stressors that you don't that don't happen in the real world. It's little stressors that when I'm looking at myself in the mirror or when I'm driving and thinking about, oh, you messed up on that thing, right? It's generated. So the ton of stress is very straightforward. It is external and internal macro and micro. So if you look at stress coming from within you or from outside you, right, internal and external, and if you look at it coming from a small reason of stress or a big reason of stress, the great example is trauma is macro external. Macro meaning it's a very, very high stressful impact, you know, very significant, comes from outside you. We don't cause ourselves trauma, something else causes us trauma. Trauma capital T here. And yeah, so it's noise is micro.”

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  30. “Love that I'll order another one. Limit you're supposed to constantly limit the number of things in your life. By the way, you know, you may think it's not taking away from your life, but it's taking space, it's taking attention, it's taking the space of something else, it's requiring you to deal with it, clean it, dust it. It's just, why?”

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  31. “100%. And it's actually, and you're depriving it of the opportunity to live. So think about, I know this is philosophical, but a humidifier is supposed to humidify. Right? It's not supposed to sit there and look pretty. If you're not using it, someone else will use it. Right? And believe it or not, the simple impact of when they're using it, you save them the need to actually buy another one. And in doing that, you might have contributed a tiny bit to our planet. And, you know, the hoarding that we have in our lives, the number of things that we keep, I love Arabic incense. And like everything, and you see sometimes silly things, like, you know, it's so what? Each of those is like $10. I had like fourteen different cents. Right? And then I realized, you know what? Anytime I light an incent I light one. Okay, and when I need to order another one, I'll get it within one day. So when this one is about to finish, and I've really enjoyed it reading.”

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  32. “or for us to chill and find expansion in our life, right? So I used to have that attitude of trying every Saturday to throw 10 things away from my home. Believe it or not, endlessly. Endlessly, you can throw 10 things or give away 10 things from your home. Last Saturday, I had this beautiful humidifier, you know, just to make the room a little more humid. And I was like, should I keep it? Should I throw it away? Should I keep it? Should I throw it away? And then I plugged it in and it didn't work. I haven't used it for like a year and a half. And you have to imagine that so many of those things are there. They're bugging you down. They're stressing your life. So if they're not used, they're stressing you. And you can choose to leave them. Just leave them behind”

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  33. “And because she follows my podcast and she knows my works and so on, she said, Oh, you're not a minimalist, you're a minimalist wannabe. And I said, What do you mean? Because I am reasonably minimalist, right? But she has that attitude to things where she says, it's only going to come into my life if I truly love it. Truly love it. Like, you know, I have 16 types of tea in my cupboard. Some of them I have never tasted, right? She has two. But she really loves them, right? And I think that's the trick. The trick is when you rank life, you hold on to that box of Earl Grey that you bought a year ago and, you know, you're like, yeah, I'll drink it one day. Will you really? You hold on to that friend that you met when you were four. And, you know, this changed, you changed, right? But we hold on to those things. And the trick is, can we actually let go of those things? Can we leave the space for other things to come?”

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  34. “But we hold on to 200,000 other things below the four or five, 200, let's say 2,000. Realistically, for each and every one of us, that when Hannah came to my home the first time, she looked at my home and she said, oh. I fell in love badly, badly. And, you know, and again, because I had space in my life, just remember that.”

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  35. “Because your brain is a survival mechanism. Your brain is constantly ignoring all that you've learned and saying there could be a nuclear war. And it's quite interesting when you really think about it because I always say if your worst fear happened, you wouldn't be here right now. And by the way, if some of them happened, surprisingly, you're still here. Isn't that interesting? So yes, your worst fear happened. And you made it because you never factor in the reality of how resilient you actually are. And I think the trick really is also not the fact that we should be a little conservative and concerned about certain things. But how much of our life should we be concerned about? If you really rank the things that are important in your life, how many of them actually matter enough so that you don't make the change? Four, five?”

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  36. “It's her, it's surprising, though, if you look back at your life and you really take a factual view of the history of your life, most of the time when you lost something, you opened up a space that allowed something else to walk in, right? This is the truth of life, right? If you lose a job, that's the only time where you're allowed to actually find another job.”

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  37. “Rainac, she says that the world will push you to change direction or to heal. They're more or less the same, but learning is like sort of the brainiac process of it and healing is the so why not? Why not get yourself in the place where the world wants you to be so that you hear or change direction? Why not make that decision yourself?”

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  38. “Your true obligation to yourself is to put yourself in those situations of uncertainty that you chose calculated risks rather than let the world push you like Alice constantly speaks about the world will always push you to either heal or change direction quite interestingly the way we write both of us is very very interesting because Alice is you know soft and feminine and spiritual in her writing and I'm a freaking engineer like everything to me is an equation and a bullet point and so on so I always say the world will push you to change direction or to learn”

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  39. “And it's quite interesting that we know it could be killing us, whatever scale you are in in the world, right? You know, you're studying something you're not enjoying, but it's familiar. I went on that path. It's been three years already. Right? And I'm not saying jump and say that's it and start over. That consistency matters. But tell yourself, I have one more year to finish. I'll finish this year with the minimum effort to achieve the result. And I'll start to look at other parts of my life by reinvesting my hours. Right? You know, you're stuck in that relationship, but dating is horrible. I don't want to leave that person alone. Yeah, but you know if it's not working that sooner or later you're going to leave the person, right? And I think my story and your story is are great examples of what happens when you leave that person. I mean, not yours, but mine. Like when you're available so that when the right person shows up, you're there.”

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  40. “To tell me, Oh, but hold on, Mo What if there is a nuclear war because the you know the Iranians don't agree with the Americans and that the nuclear dust comes to Dubai so your real estate portfolio in Dubai gets wiped out and what will happen then? And yeah, if you want to continue to hold on to your safety mechanisms, you're going to end up in a place where there is always something that could go wrong. And the answer was if that happens, I think I'll be a lot more concerned about other things than how much revenue I'm making at the time. And the truth is for every single one of us, we are afraid of the change. So we stick to the familiar. And the familiar could be killing us.”

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  41. “So I was obviously social for happy was booming my one billion happy mission was 10 million happy when we started the first print of the book and 10 million took eight weeks like you have to tell yourself sorry for my English fuck Google like you know I have to I have to focus on this right but when I was leaving Google and Google was so kind to me and I was very fortunate and I made a reasonable amount of money don't have most of it now anymore but at the time I started to tell myself but what about the future of I am my daughter okay but what about my ex and her needs what about this what about that do I have the financial resources to do this typical engineer I started that spreadsheet but every possible expense put every possible you know source of revenue and so on and it appeared to be okay right and so my brain volunteered”

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  42. “We resist the change. We say, look, I am in this place, I know how to do it very well. It's hurting my back. It's keeping me on long flights. It's doing this. It's doing that. But I'm really very familiar with it. Okay? I always make a big joke about this. When I was leaving Google X,”

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  43. “Hannah, my wonderful wife is a therapist. So therapy is not a topic, you know, psychology is not a topic I researched heavily. So she's teaching me quite a bit. And one of the biggest eye-openers for me is that she said, we love consistency. We hate change, even if change is good for us. So if we follow a script that says, I am ugly or I am not good enough or whatever, changing that script, that script is painful, but changing that script is more painful because your survival mechanism says, I'm familiar with this pain. I know how to deal with this pain. I don't want the uncertainty. Right? So, you know, the way we started this podcast and you asked me what is the most stressful thing about the modern world is that unfamiliarity of the future. We were unable to know what it looks like. And so we resist.”

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  44. “And some of our listeners will be stuck in that relationship. That is really abusive or really not effective. And what are they doing? It's an obligation. We've been together four years. He or she is not that bad. Is that the truth? Can you make choices that simply say, I will put my well-being and my mental.”

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  45. “Simple If he managed to change it, I would have stayed. He didn't manage to change it. We met again and I said, Look, I love you very much, and I think we should be friends. But not to the point where we meet every Sunday. Doesn't make any sense for me to volunteer part of my Sunday to suffer. And it is actually quite possible to do that lovingly. By saying look, I realize that you are in this stage. It's not my responsibility to take you out of it, by the way. That's not what friends are for. My responsibility as a friend is to be there when you ask me a specific thing that relates to what you're going through that I'm capable of providing. But just sitting there for four hours to listen to something that I'm not able to change doesn't make any sense.”

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  46. “The truth is, by the way, I think we're talking at your life and my life, but this applies to everyone listening, right? You have this person that constantly calls you and says, hey, let's go out for coffee. And the coffee is annoying like hell, right? And you're like, yeah, but I've known them for 20 years and they're really lovely. I swear to you, I had one of my really close, wonderful friends who was really, really struggling with his ego. So most of the conversations would be around him trying to prove that he's good enough. I had a lovely conversation with him. I said at the end of one of those coffee meetings, I said I think we shouldn't meet again. He said, what do you mean you're travelling? I said, No, no, every time I sit next to you you make me miserable. And he said, Why? And I said because you're constantly trying to do A, B and C. Can you change that, please?”

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  47. “Look, I mean, I'm not immune to this. It's actually my biggest issue, my biggest challenge is this beginning of this year, I sat down and I realized I had 18 full-time jobs. Sounds familiar And I cut them down to nine, right? And I went to everyone I love and I celebrated and I said, look, I cut them down by fifty percent, and they looked at me and said they're still nine.”

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  48. “And how do you do that in business, Steve? I know you really well. You'd say a straight no without explanation. You didn't even apologize.”

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  49. “Or simply winding down the conversations, or when they send you something or talk to you about something, you go like, oh, very interesting, right? Instead of engaging in those things, can you limit the amount of junk food you let into your life? Can you limit the amount of restrictions and control that you apply to yourself in your life? And millions of little things.”

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  50. “The trick is how beneficial for your life have those been? And if we're aware, if we're able to look at those stressors and say, hold on, I'm going to take an inventory of all of the things that stressed me last week. A genuinely honest inventory. And I'm going to tell myself, oh, by the way, I don't need this. I don't need this. I really need this. I don't need this. My commute. If I leave 10 minutes early, would it be easier? If I leave 10 minutes late, would it be easier? If I take music or the diary of the CEO podcast with me, would it become easier? And if you actually attentively, deliberately look at all of the nuisances in your life, how many of them can you limit? Countless. I promise you, you can limit countless nuisances. You can remove that friend that's annoying you. By simply texting them and saying, I don't want to be your friend.”

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